Saturday, February 26, 2011

Big Smile

Today after his basketball game, Sam got to get his braces off. Sam's orthodontist rewarded him with a caramel apple covered with M&Ms.


















Friday, February 25, 2011

Monday, February 21, 2011

Sam Basketball 02-05-2011

There haven't been any basketball games for a couple of weeks. Two weeks ago the entire league was off. This past weekend Sam spent the weekend at a friend's. This game is from February 5th. It is an important game for Sam because it was their first win! They went into overtime the first time they met this team, and the game ended in a tie. This time they won by two. It almost went into overtime again. Pretty exciting!

In this game Sam is wearing #11. He had 12 points. At one point in the game Sam double dribbled. He caught himself, and waited for the whistle. There was no whistle, so he took the shot and it went in. I think the refs realized it and let a similar play happen at the other end for the opposing team.

Sam Basketball 02-05-2011 from Ed Ballance on Vimeo.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Date Day with Alina

For several weeks Sam had been planning to spend this weekend with a friend. Jean would be at church for a CPR training. As soon as Alina knew she would have me to her self, she began planning our date day. We went for donuts, then we headed to the Build-A-Bear Workshop. Alina adopted a Bunny, and named her Alison. She picked out dresses for Alison, as well as for her bear Kate. She also picked out a bed and blankets for them. After that, she had a balloon flower hat made, then off to the shoe store where she picked out new shoes as well as some awesome pink boots. We had lunch at Red Robin––and each of us had bottomless root beer floats. Following lunch, we went to see Gnomeo & Juliet. We went and saw the kitties who were waiting for adoption, then it was home to play together. It was a fun day.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Sam Basketball 01-29-2011

This game took place the last weekend in January. Sam had 18 points, but he was so incredibly disappointed because his team still lost by two. He didn't care that he had 18 points, he wanted his team to finally win a game. Sam is #3 in the yellow jersey . . .

Sam Basketball 01-29-2011 from Ed Ballance on Vimeo.